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About Mediterranean Region

What are the Mediterranean countries?

In: Countries, States, and Cities, Continents and Regions, Oceans and Seas [Edit categories]

Answer:

The Mediterrenean countries are those that surround the Mediterranean Sea. 

In Europe:

* Spain-France-Monaco-Malta-Italy-Slovania-Croatia-(Bosnia-Herzegovina)-Montenegro-Albania-Greece-Turkey

In Asia:

* Syria-Cyprus-Lebanon-Israel

In Africa:

* Egypt-Lybia-Tunisia-Algeria-Morocco

Where is it?

The Mediterranean region is defined as countries bordering the Mediterranean Sea (plus Portugal) between about 27° to 47°N and 10°W to 37°E. The Mediterranean, which literally means the “sea between lands”, offers favourable environmental conditions, such as climate, biological diversity and natural resources. Since earliest times, different people from faraway lands have chosen its shores to settle and it is the birthplace of some of the oldest, most deeply rooted cultures and civilisations of our planet (Egyptian, Greek, Roman and Arab), and of three of the most influential global religions: Christianity, Islam and Judaism.

The Mediterranean Sea is the largest of the semi-enclosed European seas. It is surrounded by 18 countries and has shores on three continents (Europe, Africa and Asia) with a combined population of 129 million people in the catchment draining into sea, and sharing a coastline of 46 000 km. It is one of the leading tourist areas in the world, hosting 100 million visitors every year. This influx of people increases the waste discharges from domestic and industrial sources.

The Mediterranean Sea has an average depth of 1.5 km, though more than 20 per cent of the total area is covered by water less than 200 m deep. The sea consists of two major basins, the eastern and the western. There are also smaller regional seas within the Mediterranean: the Ligurian, Tyrrhenian, Adriatic and Aegean seas. It is linked to the Atlantic by the Strait of Gibraltar, with the Black Sea and...